JOHOR BARU: For more than one-and-a-half months, Kalaiyarasi Perumal endured a sharp pain in her lower abdomen.
She dismissed it as a possible side-effect from a hysterectomy she had in September.
It was only on Deepavali day, when the pain became unbearable and she vomited incessantly, that the assistant nurse suspected that something was wrong.
When she was rushed to the private hospital where she worked, doctors suspected food poisoning but an X-ray revealed a more shocking reason for her pain.
There was a foreign object in her abdomen.
Apparently, the object was accidentally left in her abdomen during her hysterectomy at a government hospital.
She had undergone the hysterectomy after she was diagnosed with a cyst in her womb.
Following the X-ray, her doctor referred her back to the hospital which had conducted the hysterectomy.
She underwent another three-hour surgery on Nov 11 and found out that the foreign object was a 20cm-long forceps.
The forceps had ruptured part of her intestines and doctors had to remove 5cm of the damaged intestine.
"It has been more than 10 days since I was warded. Now, I feel better and there is no more pain. But I am afraid that there may be problems in the future," said the single mother of one.
When asked if she was going to take legal action against the hospital, Kalaiyarasi, 44, said her focus now was to get well.
The hospital director could not be contacted.
Source: The New Straits Times
She dismissed it as a possible side-effect from a hysterectomy she had in September.
It was only on Deepavali day, when the pain became unbearable and she vomited incessantly, that the assistant nurse suspected that something was wrong.
When she was rushed to the private hospital where she worked, doctors suspected food poisoning but an X-ray revealed a more shocking reason for her pain.
There was a foreign object in her abdomen.
She had undergone the hysterectomy after she was diagnosed with a cyst in her womb.
Following the X-ray, her doctor referred her back to the hospital which had conducted the hysterectomy.
She underwent another three-hour surgery on Nov 11 and found out that the foreign object was a 20cm-long forceps.
The forceps had ruptured part of her intestines and doctors had to remove 5cm of the damaged intestine.
"It has been more than 10 days since I was warded. Now, I feel better and there is no more pain. But I am afraid that there may be problems in the future," said the single mother of one.
When asked if she was going to take legal action against the hospital, Kalaiyarasi, 44, said her focus now was to get well.
The hospital director could not be contacted.
Source: The New Straits Times
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